fairy tail story..

[actionfinch]

A thread on long tailed tits hit me when i signed in today , dame i thought i wanted to write about what i observered. After i see it ( yesterday at work) i was mulling over how and what to type so....( dont get to excited)
once upon a time......
I heard a flock of long tailed tits and when i trained my hearing to locate them there they were half a dozen in a tree about 10 yds from where i was standing..wow i see them for the first time at work...i stood and looked in amazement like i have never seen them before ( i do with any of our feathered friends...).Then out of the corner of my eye i see one of the flock , and to my astonishment it had no tail... a long tailed tit with no tail.. i felt sorry for the little fella until he flew off into another tree.
It had no problems flying mind, which i couldn't get over.

So do birds really need tails?
Do we thik he was a lucky one on feeding day for a raptor?
Or just born without one?

its not everyday we see something like that .

and i lived happly ever after....

[Dogghound]

Tails are important for flight and balance as well as courtship and communication in some species. Long tailed tits are very much at the lower end of the foodchain. A wide variety of things could have happened to its tail, likely predators or a collision with something.

[faz]

as dogghound as said cats usally attact from behind ther prey so cud be down to a cat

[actionfinch]

Originally Posted by faz

as dogghound as said cats usally attact from behind ther prey so cud be down to a cat

the only hting with the cat idea is that LTT never seem to stay still long enough and i have never seen them that close to the ground, but still

[Dogghound]

A lot of birds will have a go at long tailed tits not just raptors but also magpies and jays even shrikes (if your lucky) etc.